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...peacekeepers call for deploying 50,000 NATO troops, about half of them American. Pentagon officials say they would send units of NATO's Rapid Reaction Corps to join U.S. Marines and carrier-based aircraft to assist with the pullout. About half the U.S. contingent would actually go ashore, a prospect that appalls some congressional leaders. "Despite all the rhetoric that we would not have troops on the ground, they will be on the ground," complains Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana. Nearly as worrisome to Congress is the price tag for bringing the U.N. mission home: $1 billion or more...
...less credible than a flying saucer. At a Senate committee hearing last month to reconfirm Shirley Chater as commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Republican Alan Simpson of Wyoming confronted Chater with a poll showing that more people under the age of 35 believe in UFOs than in the prospect that Social Security will pay them benefits upon retirement. Whatever the merits of their judgment on extraterrestrials, on Social Security the new workers have it exactly right. Given enough time, reality bites...
...change is to take place, it would be better to have it before the immense claims of retiring baby boomers send the system into shock-and create a huge bloc of pensioners fiercely invested in the status quo. Also before a resentful younger generation, faced with the prospect of giant tax hikes, starts practicing reform with a sledgehammer...
However, the worst mistake Clinton could make would be to use the "Partnership for Peace" as a permanent substitute for NATO's expansion. Having two classes of security guarantees would likely make the partnership a vague and ineffective alliance. At the same time, the prospect of western expansion would still inflame Russian nationalists...
...Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center is a preferable, more sanitary option for many who object to the mysterious odors which permeate the Malkin Athletic Center. And, despite the prospect of long, cold, salty walks during the brutal winter months, those who choose to transfer to the Quad embrace what they call "going home." "I've done it in the cold. I've done it in the snow. I really don't mind," says Michelle Kiang, ostensibly referring to the long trek. Cabot House resident Justin C. Label, vice-president of the Undergraduate Council, succinctly sums up the best reason he sees...